Root Your Telus Milestone

It's finally time for all you Telus Milestone owners to finally have root access on your device! Over at AllDroid they have compiled instructions based from the knowledge and information of many different developers and hackers within the Android community. While the rooting for this device, which includes having to flash to a Brazilian .sbf file, is a bit more intricate then many of the other devices at least it is a start. It doesn't appear the kernel is yet available, but beggars can't be choosers, can they?

Keep in mind, this is a risky process, and should be done at your own peril (or at least at your phone's peril). If you have questions, or need help with this process, jump into the forums. [AllDroid via Boy Genius Report]

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Root Your Telus Milestone

This also isn't a full root. You still won't be able to install custom roms, overclock your CPU, or install apps2sd and you'll end up loosing a couple apps and exchanging browser for one that's even less stable.

This is also a one-way street. There is no way to back up your phone before taking this root (I mean route) and therefore no way to revert to your original Telus rom, at least not until the Telus 2.1 update surfaces sometime between the beginning of Q2 and kingdom come.

This doesn't let you off the hook for the fight with Motorola to unlock the bootloader.